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Re: Documentation: unclear comment


From: Micah Cowan
Subject: Re: Documentation: unclear comment
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:31:33 -0800
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On 12/09/2010 05:00 PM, Micah Cowan wrote:
> (12/09/2010 04:48 AM), Christophe Jarry wrote:
>>   # check if converted file name is equal to original file name,
>>   # if it is, do not print nothing
>>   /^.*\/\(.*\)\n\1/b
>>
>> I think this comment means "do not print anything".
>> Please correct the documentation accordingly.
> 
> Why would that be what the comment means? It's not what the code does.

And of course, it appears I completely missed the point you were trying
to make, which is that you just want the "nothing" changed to
"anything". Silly me.

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Micah J. Cowan
http://micah.cowan.name/



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